Data Center Facilities Technician I, Controls
Job Summary
Job Description
The Data Center Facilities Technician I, Controls will inspect, maintain, and repair various data center systems, including servers, network equipment, PLCs, and SCADA systems. Responsibilities involve providing daily assistance to senior technicians, reading blueprints/schematics, conducting system tours, and assessing working order. The role includes controlling, monitoring, logging, and alarming systems, responding to abnormal conditions, and supporting the integration of new control equipment. The successful candidate will have 2+ years of experience in controls/automation in an industrial or commercial setting and an Associate's degree or equivalent. The work requires physical tasks, including lifting up to 50 lbs, and adherence to safety protocols. The role contributes to maintaining data center performance and minimizing downtime.
Must have:
- Associate's degree or equivalent experience
- 2+ years Controls/Automation experience
- Ability to lift 50 lbs
- Safety equipment proficiency
- Blueprint/schematic reading
- System inspection & repair
- SCADA system knowledge
- PLC experience
Good to have:
- Industry standard certifications (CompTIA A+, Network+, Security+)
- Data center, hospital, power plant, or lab experience
- Scripting language experience
- Knowledge of meters, sensors, and diagnostic equipment
4 skills required
Job Details
Minimum qualifications:
- Associate's degree, trade school certification, or other certified training in a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of experience in Controls/Automation in an industrial or commercial environment.
- Ability to participate in material handling tasks such as lifting, carrying or moving up to 50 lbs (23 kg) of equipment, the required use of safety equipment such as limited weight bearing work platforms, ladders, step stools and personal protective equipment (PPE) like safety harnesses in accordance with safety and ergonomic guidelines and assessments.
- Ability to work non-standard hours and differing work rotations/shifts.
Preferred qualifications:
- Industry standard certifications related to system administration (e.g., CompTIA A+, CompTIA Network+, CompTIA Security+, Certified Windows or Linux system administrator).
- 2 years of experience in controls/automation, or construction/technical environment or a related field.
- Experience in data centers, hospitals, power plants, or laboratories.
- Experience in scripting language.
- Knowledge of meters, devices, sensors, relays and troubleshooting utilizing standard hand tools, digital metering, or calibration/diagnostic equipment.
- Ability to communicate with contractors who perform maintenance or upgrade work on the data center systems.
About the job
The Data Center team designs and operates some of the most sophisticated electrical engineering, mechanical engineering and HVAC systems in the world. Facilities Technicians at Google data centers operate, monitor and support physical facilities conditions. Some of these duties will include heating and cooling of air and water, power supply, generators, UPS systems, electrical distribution and control and monitoring systems. You regularly help inspect, maintain and repair various data center systems such as piping and non-critical electrical or mechanical system components). You provide daily assistance to senior technicians as you read blueprints/schematics, conduct tours of systems and assess their working order.As an advocate for best practices, you develop creative approaches to reducing operational costs while improving overall data center efficiency. You ensure that environmental and safety standards are consistently met, identifying problems and making repairs quickly. In emergency situations or abnormal conditions, you manage data center performance issues and outages to minimize the recovery time from failures.
As a Facilities Technician, you will operate, monitor, and support physical facilities conditions for our data centers.The Data Center team designs and operates some of the most sophisticated electrical and HVAC systems in the world. We are a diverse, upbeat, creative, team-oriented group of engineers committed to building and operating powerful data centers.
Responsibilities
- Inspect, maintain, and repair various data center systems such as servers, network equipment, programmable logic controller (PLCs), system administration, access control, alarm investigation, and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) management.
- Provide daily assistance to technicians as you read blueprints/schematics/ladder logic/sequence of operations, conduct tours of systems, and assess their working order.
- Control, monitoring, logging, and alarming systems.
- Operate, monitor, maintain, and respond to abnormal conditions in the data center facilities systems and equipment.
- Support startup, commissioning, and integration of new controls equipment and systems into facilities infrastructure.
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